Pours gold with a a small head.
Nose shows caramel and toffee in large amounts, quite nice.
Similar flavours, loads of malt with honey and caramel notes, similar to the IPA. Unfortunately is fall flat quickly after that.
Body seems watery.
I was quite surprised with this, especially after looking at other reviews. It's actually quite nice, and far removed from the boring pale lager-like beer I expecting...

A friend kept recommending I try this beer, but stubborn and lazy as I am I never got around to it. So the other day when he dropped by with a bottle of this I thought now I have to review it. It says "Kolsch" on the label and the only Kolsch I've ever tried is the quite outstanding "Kamberra Kolsch" which whilst not as good as their ales is still a decent brew... lets see how this beer compares.

S: Very mild aroma for this one. It is reminiscent crisp apple with a grain undertone and cut grass after note.

T: The flavour is fresh and slightly hoppy with biscuit malts and apple peel. It's not bad but nonetheless presents little challenge to the taste buds. There is an odd aftertaste; regular hop bitterness mixed with some sort of metallic tang, it's not "tip the drink down the sink" bad however it does distract from the overall flavour.

M: Mid to low carbonation and fairly light bodied.

D: It's a middle road brew this 'Wahoo'. I want to like it more but it doesn't offer much in the way of flavour, kind of like a typical Aussie lager (only this is much less offensive). This would be a good beer for a scorching summer day when you needed something that goes down fast and without a challenge - like lemonade.

Food match: Try matching this with seafood (yeah I know there's a picture of a fish on the side of the bottle), prawns would go well with this, or calamari rings fried with a lemon wedge and some chips.

This beer gets a bad rap, but I think its more misunderstood than anything. Its actually somewhere between an alt and a kolsch, but not as good as either. Some clean robust malt character present in the background (alt like), but it is let down by a metallic hop character/bitterness

Overall a drinkable beer - but it could be a great if they bumped up the bitternss, put in a touch more malt, and chuck in some quality hops.

Pours a pale straw colour with light carbonation, no head, thin rim of lace. Nice champagne colour, shame it doesn't have the sparkle of champagne. Or anything else.

Nose has a hint of fruit, a hint of honey, a hint of herbal hops. A big dollop of nothing, and a slight rice aroma. Very light sourness saves it from being utterly boring.

Taste is simple and dull, very watery with hints of carbonation and a mild piney hop, but very little. Very thin feel, no carbonation or anything. Has maybe a slight grassy astringency but nothing really. Short, dull palate, very little to recommend here. Sharpness at the back is a turnoff, otherwise just boring.

Wouldn't call this premium, and it's far more likely to make me yell "Get out of the way, I have to puke" than "Wahoo!"

Very pale piss yellow, with some champagne bubbles and a filmy head of white foam. Looks pretty insipid.

Smells undeniably like ass, or at least a slightly warm and organic fart. Sulphurous, with a light carbonic acidity. Great, it's like puke and farts. Well done beer. Slight fishy characters as well. At least these characters aren't really strong.

Light sweet and a little sickly with a thin corn or wheat-husk character. Boo. Not very much at all. Mouthfeel very thin.

A thoroughly unpleasant and thoughtlessly offensive beer. It doesn't have quite enough character to be truly undrinkable, but I'll certainly pass if someone offers me another.

Taste - 3.0
Very clean and crisp, with just a hint of softness that suggests that it is an ale, not a lager. Light grain and husk flavour, low to moderate bitterness lingers nicely, finishes dry.

Mouthfeel - 3.0
Low carbonation, could definitely stand to be more lively, but goes down quite smoothly.

Drinkability - 4.0
Certainly sessionable, this would be a great bbq beer, although certainly not interesting enough for enthusiasts to come back to.

OVERALL - 2.8
How this won a gold at the AIBA I will never know. Admittedly there is not much wrong with it, but there is very little right with it either. It could be easily mistaken as one of the better Australian or European macro lagers. Sad that Gage Roads is having to resort to this kind of tasteless beer to save their own hides.

Wow, that's the least amount of head I've ever seen. It didn't even cover the top of the beer when poured into the middle of the glass.. Then what was there promptly disappeared. Anyway, it's sort of a bland yellow color. Moving on to smell....there isn't any. It smells like water. As for taste, it's actually got some, which is progress, I guess. Unfortunately, it tastes like somebody dipped their keys into some water and bottled it. Mouthfeel, watery and not carbonated at all. Drinkability: I guess it's drinkable. It says it's brewed and bottled to chill on ice, which I guess means it'll be so cold you won't really taste anything anyway, which would be an improvement here.

As per all of the preceeding reviews this to my palate was rather uninteresting.
However if one reads the BA view of American Blonde ALe it does appear to be well within the definition , hence a passing score.
It is a drinkable beer ,suited to a hot day , and infinitely better than most other offerings , of the macro variety from the local Drive Through.
Gage Roads normally have a bit more of a quality about them but the name and labelling suggest it is far more of an business beer than a craft beer, which is fine , as long as there better beers dont head down that track

This pours pale, pale, pale. Pale what? Straw I suppose. Large bubbled head which quickly disappears with no retention or lacing. An ugly looking beer.
A nose of lemon and lime which unfortunately reminded me of dishwashing liquid.
Not an unpleasant taste, again the lemon and lime, but very simple. Very low carbonation. The glass getting empty is the best indication that I am drinking something.
Bland.

I expected better things since I rather like the Gage roads IPA and Lager. This is definitely in the macro lager territory and I found it insipid and even unpalatable. It looks like a Corona clone with a very pale straw colour and faint head. At first taste I thought 'Stella' but it doesn't have the depth or thirst quenchability of Stella. Then it just sort of petered out into bland macro swill that was disappointing. I just finished plastering my bathroom ceiling and the first one went down easily and was refreshing. The second made its inadequacies apparent and I can say it ranks among all the other bland blondes out there. It's as flavourless as Corona but without the urban cool. Avoid.